Nasu Bettei Kai
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Does Nasu Bettei Kai allow tattoos? In a private bath
Nasu Bettei Kai has ten rooms and no shared bath: each room has its own hot spring tub, and the detached room’s is outdoors within earshot of the river. Asked about tattoos, the inn tells guests to stay without a second thought.
The inn answers this in its own FAQ: because every room has its own bath, a guest with tattoos can stay without worrying. There is no shared bath on site to be turned away from.
Show this at the front desk
タトゥー・入れ墨がある場合宿泊できますか？客室ごとにお風呂がございますので、気兼ねなくご宿泊ください。
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
The bath
The inn has no shared bath. Each of its ten rooms has its own bath of the Shin-Nasu spring, and the spring runs from the spout the whole time; a second tap gives well water so you can set the temperature yourself. The inn says the room baths are also filtered and recirculated for hygiene. Rooms one to nine have a half-open-air bath, several with a shower booth; room one's tub is keyhole-shaped, room nine's window frames the forest like a painting. Room ten is a detached house of 130 square meters for up to six, with an indoor bath and an open-air bath within sound of the stream. The photos show stone tubs with a wooden spout.
The water is the Shin-Nasu Onsen source, a simple spring (hypotonic, neutral, high temperature) at 64.6°C, nearly colorless, astringent to taste, with a smell of hydrogen sulfide. The inn lists it for skin, neuralgia, joint pain and stiffness, digestion, cold sensitivity, muscle pain, recovery after illness and fatigue, and says it can be used in pregnancy. The source is the Omaru spring found in 1691, piped down by wooden pipe and gravity in 1923, and piped to the Nasu Imperial villa from 1926. Guests who want a large bath can walk to Sansuikaku next door.
The hotel
An all-suite inn of ten rooms, each over 70 square meters, on a fenced 6,600-square-meter wooded site beside the Nasu Imperial villa, run by the company behind Sansuikaku next door, which has kept an inn here for nearly a hundred years. Several rooms are closed to children. Dinner is a mountain-village kaiseki (a multi-course Japanese meal) at the restaurant Jimiru, cooked on a charcoal grill, with Tochigi wagyu and ayu from the Naka River, at 6, 6:30 or 7 p.m.; there are no room meals. The minibar drinks are free. No pets. Check-in 3 p.m., check-out 11 a.m., with an hour's extension for ¥5,500.
Good to know
- Set your own temperature: two taps at the tub, one spring water and one well water.
- No room meals, and the last dinner seating is 7 p.m., cooked over charcoal at Jimiru.
- The Shin-Nasu highway bus stop is a 5-minute walk, on the Nasu-Shiobara bus straight from Busta Shinjuku.
- Local bus for ¥500 a ride from Nasushiobara or Kuroiso Station, arranged through the inn.
Getting there
Take the Tohoku Shinkansen to Nasushiobara Station (1 hour 8 minutes from Tokyo on the Yamabiko), then the Kanto route bus toward Nasu-Yumoto. Guests of the Nasu Onsen inns pay ¥500 a ride if they tell the inn first; it is an ordinary bus with no seat reservation, so you may stand or wait for the next one. The Nasu-Shiobara highway bus from Busta Shinjuku runs straight to the Shin-Nasu stop, a 5-minute walk from the door. Drivers should set the navigation by the inn's name.
Nasushiobara STN · JR Tohoku Shinkansen, then the Kanto bus toward Nasu-Yumoto
Not walkable.
Kanto bus, ¥500 a ride for guests through the inn; or the highway bus from Busta Shinjuku to Shin-Nasu, 5 minutes on foot.
Where it is
Shin-Nasu bus stop
- Tohoku Shinkansen 1 hr 8 min
- Kanto Jidosha bus 39 min
- Shinkansen tickets Seats between any two stations, booked by date.
- JR Tokyo Wide Pass ¥16,000 · 3 days Worth it if Nasu is one stop in a longer Kanto trip.
- Japan Rail Pass from ¥53,000 · 7, 14 or 21 days For a trip that takes in several regions by Shinkansen and JR lines.
What happens when you arrive
There's no shared bath here, so every bath you use is private.
How we know
Confirmed from official site (the inn’s FAQ, which takes the tattoo question directly, in Japanese and English)
Best for: couples who want a detached suite with its own hot spring bath
Every room has its own bath fed with hot spring water, with a second tap of well water to adjust the temperature; the inn says it also filters and recirculates the room baths for hygiene. Guests may walk next door to the large bath at Sansuikaku, which is a shared bath. Check-in 3 p.m., check-out 11 a.m.
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